Sep 24, 2009

Useless as Ballistic Bull-tits

UNITED NATIONS – With President Barack Obama presiding over an historic session, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday committing all nations to work for a nuclear weapons-free world.

Russia, China and developing nations supported the measure, giving it global clout and strong political backing.

It would be a brilliant gesture… if it there was any hope of it working. In truth, you could almost laugh at the useless absurdity of it. Several decades after the world first experienced the dramatic devastation of the technology, and scores of years after the gripping tensions caused by the cold war, we see the UN calling for a nuclear weapons-free world. It’s taken this largely impotent organization that long to agree on something, so painfully obvious, that it should have been signed and settled over 40 years ago. But I guess progress, even this slow, has to be appreciated at some level.

So now what? With the combined clout of members present in this assembly, one (who is grossly naïve) may think that the day when nuclear weapons are no longer a constant threat to our tenuously positioned species might be somewhere in sight.

But that would be a piteous mistake… and one that very few people with more than a fifth grade education would make. If the UN had one quarter of the influence that it was intended to have, the reality would be different. Korea would have ditched their efforts to play a dangerous nuclear development bluff and the US would never have invaded Iraq.

Outside of keeping the Greeks and the Cypriotes away from throttling each other (by only mere inches) the UN is effectively a dog and pony show put on to pay lip service to world order and global egalitarianism. And it’s a shame, because there is so much potential in a world coalition of good sense.

In the end, however, such potential dwindles down to wishful thinking and foolish optimism. The UN holds about as much clout to world order as Michael Moore has to Donald Trump.

And, while a world free of nukes would benefit every living thing on this blue ball, you can bet your Plutonium 238 that the nuclear powers of the world are about as likely to disarm as Rush Limbaugh is to marry Rosie O’Donnell.